RE: Extending euthanasia to minors
April 29, 2013 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2013 at 9:05 pm by Darkstar.)
(April 29, 2013 at 8:47 pm)Tex Wrote: If a person requests euthanasia, regardless of circumstance, the request should be denied. If there is lots of pain, you give them morphine. If all the morphine in the world doesn't stop the pain, you look for a way to stop the pain that doesn't involve killing the person. Granting people's wish does not make it moral.
There comes a point where if you give someone enough medication to dull the pain, they will be so out of it they might as well be dead (or actually die from an overdose of painkillers).
(April 29, 2013 at 8:47 pm)Tex Wrote: Instead, a better option is to find the problem and fix it. If we don't know how to fix it, we figure out how to fix it.
(April 29, 2013 at 2:48 pm)Luminox Wrote: ...and that doctors must be certain the pain they are suffering, whether physical, psychological or both, is caused by a serious and incurable condition, and is constant, unbearable and cannot be mitigated.
Bolding mine
Maybe you missed this part?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
